1833 in Wales

1833 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1833 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*January 29 - In the United Kingdom general election, Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, defeats Tory candidate Panton Corbett to win the enlarged constituency of Montgomery for the Liberals.
*April 2 - Launch of HMS Royal William at Pembroke Dock. This was the first ship to be built there with over 100 guns.
*Isaac Williams becomes Dean of Trinity College, Oxford.
*Lady Charlotte Bertie marries John Josiah Guest.
*Adrian Stephens invents the steam whistle as a safety device for use at Dowlais Ironworks; he fails to patent it.

Arts and literature

New books

*Sir Harford Jones Brydges - "The Dynasty of the Kajars, translated from the original Persian manuscript"
*Eliza Constantia Campbell - "Stories from the History of Wales"

Music

*David James - "Myfyrdawd"

Births

*January 10 - Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet (d. 1877)
*January 23 - Sir Lewis Morris, poet (d. 1907)
*July 6 - David Hugh Jones (Dewi Arfon), poet (d. 1869)
*July 12 - John Hugh Evans, Wesleyan minister and temperance campaigner (d. 1886)
*August 20 - General Sir James Hills-Johnes, military leader (d. 1919)
*"date unknown" - James James (Iago ap Ieuan), harpist and composer (d. 1902)
**Jacob Thomas, VC recipient (d. 1911)

Deaths

*January 9 - Sir Thomas Foley, admiral, 75
*February 6 - Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London, 69
*February 26 - Richard Jones, minister and writer, 61
*May 4 - William Morgan, scientist and actuary 82
*October 1 - Thomas Beynon, archdeacon of Cardigan and patron of the arts, 88


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